James' personal issue being that he didn't need so much, now that he was alone in his house, without Annie and Ruth. That was the political, the commercial, issue. In the new world, a man could no longer buy toilet paper unless he bought it in bulk. The main issue, in fact, was that there were no individual rolls, or even packages of four. The shelves held rolls and rolls of it, actually, in a seemingly endless wall of white spools that represented some eternity of bodily function. T oilet paper was a hot commodity in the new world, and what James gathered from friends was that he'd feel doomed while out searching for it, but that wasn't at all what he discovered, there in Springhurst Kroger.
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